HAVE you dined in a restaurant recently? Or did you buy something from a mall? Have you maybe received a parcel from a motorcycle courier?
You might have seen a particularly young staff standing a tad too straight, lean and agile but with eyes that were seemingly overcast with veiled frustration.Then, you could already have been served by an aspiring seafarer whose luck was too down to get him sailing on foreign shores.
According to the Filipino Association for Mariners' Employers , only 5,000 of the 26,000 maritime cadets are accommodated for cadetship slots every year, leaving 21,000 unable to graduate.These young dreamers would endure three years of rigid academic studies, underscored by regimental training for some, only to end up underemployed or unemployed due to a gap between education and employment in the Philippine maritime industry.Mothelo Jess Bantolo, 24, knew the story too well.
Antiqueño's Detour To Seafaring Success
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